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As Stacy and I work on getting back to our usual routine, Winter of 2010 has decided to start off hard and over a month early this year. While I'd hoped to have the usual until Christmas for snow and cold to 'stick' to be able to finish up with some pre-winter prep, not happening this year. Top photo was taken the morning of the first snowfall that stayed. November 17th. Not too much that day about an inch and it didn't stay on the roads at all. Compare that photo with the photo I took Thanksgiving morning. By this day it had been snowing almost continuously for about a week. Luckily I had gotten the Polaris quad ready early with the snowplow blade and tire chains and spent a little over an hour that morning clearing out around the house and the driveway and also making it so the postal carrier can drive up to our mailbox. Bottom photo was this morning. Still snowing then as now, and Stacy and I had plowed and cleaned away snow again today before I took the photo. It&

Quite a lot has been going on since October 22nd and the last post! Laura and Tyler were with us the 24th to the 31st, Sandy and Erik came up the 29th and also went home the 31st. Erik was getting over being sick and Sandy had the brunt of the illness that Saturday. And being the caring daughter she is, Sandy gave us the gift that keeps on giving- her illness! She was only with us such a short time but within just a few days after they'd left I was sick and so was Stacy's father. The problem with that was, Sean had been offered and had excepted the position with his company and had a very short time frame to get relocated to Hawaii. So sick or not things had to get going to get him moved. Stacy and I talked about how best to facilitate this task, and agreed to make it a two part job. I would take the truck and trailer to California, get all their belongings and bring them to Idaho to keep and ship to Sean and Brandy in Hawaii over time. Stacy would take Brandy and go to Hawaii